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The Second Grid

The reorganization of electrical infrastructure around manufactured generation and distributed storage, replacing the twentieth-century model of centralized fossil generation.

The reorganization of electrical infrastructure around manufactured generation, distributed storage, and behind-the-meter generation, displacing the twentieth-century model of centralized fossil generation and one-way transmission. The Second Grid is denser, more distributed, and built on consumer-electronics economics rather than utility monopoly economics.

First introduced in: Chapter 6

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